Shashank Teertha in second round

Shashank Teertha recovered from a slow start to beat seventh seed Lakshya Gupta 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the first round of the Rs.100,000 AITA men’s ranking tennis tournament at the CLTA Complex on Tuesday.

In another lively encounter, Irfan Husain beat Jagmeet Singh 6-4, 6-7(3), 7-6(5). Top seed VM Ranjeet and second seed Dalwinder Singh progressed smoothly into the second round.

The results (first round: VM Ranjeet bt Taha Kapadia 6-3, 6-3; Digvijay Singh Mehta bt Puru Upadhyay 7-6(9), 6-2; Irfan Husain bt Jagmeet Singh 6-4, 6-7(3), 7-6(5); Faisal Qamar bt Tushar Madan 6-1, 6-4; Jatin Dahiya bt Parav Dev Garg 6-4, 6-1; Abhishek Gaur bt Shivank Bhatnagar 6-2, 6-2; Hardeep Singh Sandhu bt Neeraj Yashpaul 6-4, 7-5; Shashank Teertha bt Lakshya Gupta 4-6, 6-4, 6-4; Calvin Golmei bt Anurag Nenwani 6-1, 6-4; Megh Patel bt Ominder Baisoya 6-0, 6-4; Ayyooque Ahmed Khan bt Ravikiran Ribhav 6-4, 6-4; Suraj Prabodh bt Drona Walia 6-2, 6-3; Armaan Bhatia bt KS Dheeraj 6-1, 7-5; Gunjan Jadhav bt LR Balaji 4-6, 6-3, 4-2 (conceded); Deepender Singh Bains bt Atharva Sharma 6-2, 6-2; Dalwinder Singh bt Udit Kamboj 6-1, 6-2.

(Courtesy: The Hindu)